Starting your own Business
What sets us Apart?
With so many franchise options out there, why pick The Fruit Stand?
Build Your Own Bowls! The first place of its kind to get amazing quality fruit that's cut fresh daily at an affordable price. Easy to follow and read menu allows for faster ordering and more sales per hour. We can build orders faster and with perfect customer satisfaction, because the customer can see us make their bowl.
- Speed of Sales (Orders can be completed in under a minute)
- Minimal food allergies.
- No major spoiling/expires quickly.
- Ordering fruit as you go/low inventory cost.
- No supply chain headache.
- Price point- extremely affordable, quality products, more frequent customers.
- Redefining a category- dessert and health store-best of both worlds and bridging the gap, tailoring to tons of different people of any age, right in the middle of delicious treat and healthy alternative, gateway to eating healthier.
- No overwhelming menu.
- 75% repeat customers.
Work Life Balance!
A huge factor to owning your own business is the freedom, but not every business is created equal, while other smoothie shops are open 7 days a week and 12 plus hours a day to achieve the same unit sales as The Fruit Stand. When are you able to have time off for yourself and your family?
The Fruit Stand is open 6 days a week from 9am to 7pm, We have proven that we can have the same great sales (even better, in some cases) within a shorter time span.
Here are a list of benefits to having less hours than our competitors.
1. Work Life Balance for you and your employees.
2. Less hours worked, means employees give better customer service and in return more repeat customers.
3. More time for you to be able to operate multiple locations.
Building the Life you want!
Why start your own business?
Before I started The Fruit Stand in 2021, I was working at an office job I hated. I truly felt that I had no other option in my life and that I had to make the best out of the job I had. I was feeling an overwhelming amount of pressure to stay at the job because it was safe and a "Good Job".
Everyday I would look around at my coworkers who had been there for years and I could see how unhappy and stuck they were. I said to myself I did not want to become like them. So one Saturday I left my office keys at my desk and walked out.
Yes it's a lot of hard work, but when you are doing that hard work for yourself and building a business for yourself and your family, there's no better feeling.
What we offer is the ability to set your own path to success and create the life style you want.
Grow to multiple location like we have done or operate one location and maximum your free time.
Either way, the knowledge and experience as a "The Fruit Stand" owner will open many other doors in your life, you'll meet many different people and truly learn the amazing feeling creating a business can bring.
Supply Chain
After owning and operating our first store and opening a second, we have learned all the possible pain points of running a business. With that being said our biggest issue our first year was being able to keep our great products in stock all the time. That is why as a franchise you will have access to purchasing 90% of everything you will need to operate your business from our own in house distribution.
The benefits of this, is you are able to buy as you need without worrying about running out of product, as well as getting wholesale pricing without having to buy wholesale quantities.
As we open more locations, we will able able to buy in greater volume increasing our savings even more.
Simple Menu + Less Inventory = Better Profits
Why don't we do wraps and sandwiches?
Our Competitors have huge menus with so many more options, their profits must be more, right? Wrong!
Large menus cause customer to take longer to order and their orders take longer to make. This makes for less sales and less customers taken care of per hour.
Our Mission is to serve the highest quality bowls FAST!
A huge value we give to customers is our speed of service, which our competitors can not even come close too! Especially with an average rate of 60 seconds spent per customer from start to finish.
The Four P's
Product
Product
Product
Our Product is fresh and simple.
Our Smoothie bases have an unmatched texture and taste.
We cut our fresh fruits daily.
We make all of our smoothie bases daily.
We have healthy and fun options for
everyone!
People
Product
Product
Our staff is where it's at!
We have a culture of amazing relationship building customer service, so that we make sure every customer has an experience they remember!
Place
Process
Process
Location. Location. Location.
Our shops are where the customers are.
Colleges and shopping areas are perfect spots.
Each location has a Clean, Fresh, and Natural feel!
Process
Process
Process
From top to bottom we have created easy to run and grow processes. This allows you to operate your business as easily as possible, leaving you as an owner to expand at your own pace.
Value to Customers
Our ability to serve our customers a fresh and fast product, is a great advantage we have over our competitors.
Not only with our speed, but the customizability allows our customers to get exactly what the want, every single time.
Steps to Ownership
1. Send us an Email at the Top of the page!
Tell us a little about yourself, where you'd like to open a location, and we'll reach back out to you.
2. Phone Call with our CEO
A Phone with Jason Carpinelli , to get to know each other and talk about your goals.
3. Candidate Information Collecting
We will be collecting information on you, this includes financial statements, credit history, and background information.
4. FDD Review
This is your time review the Franchise Disclosure Document, this document includes everything you need to know about opening your own "Fruit Stand". It's a long document, but don't be scared it is in place for both of our legal protection.
5. Franchise Awarded
After receiving your franchise agreement and reviewing, you will then execute your agreement and send in the initial franchise fee of $35,000. Once the agreement and franchise fee have been received and finalized, you will be an official franchisee.
6. Orientation & Training
Orientation is a required one-day class which should be scheduled and completed within the first 30 days of becoming a Fruit Stand franchisee. Here, we will discuss all the steps involved with opening your store, including budgeting, financing, planning, site selection, ordering, construction, and more. Once complete, you will start the process of training and store build out.
Training will take place closer to your store opening. This is a four-week, required class held at our main Kent location for all franchisees and managers. This comprehensive, hands-on course will familiarize you with our core product knowledge and our operational systems.
7. Location build out and Store Opening!
Build out for your location can take 2 to 6 months, our team will work with you and a contractor to get work done as quickly as possible. Finally your store will open, and the real work begins!